Clarion 1937-03-00 Vol 16 No 09

MALE CHORUS TO MAKE A TOUR
THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XVI, No. 9 BETHEL INSTITUTE ST. PAUL, MINN. March, 1937
Debaters Take River Falls Tournament
DR. HAGSTROM ATTENDS
MISSION BOARD MEETINGS
Dr. Hagstrom left Thursday,
March 11, for New York, to attend
meetings of the Board of Managers
of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, March 15, 16, and
17.
Enroute to New York, Dr. Hag-strom
stopped at the International
Baptist Seminary in East Orange,
New Jersey, to be present Friday,
March 12, as a representative of the
Swedish Baptists at a meeting of
the Commission of Baptist Bodies
using Foreign languages.
Sunday, March 14th, was Bethel
Day at the Swedish Baptist Church
of Montclair, New Jersey. Dr. Hag-strom
spoke at the services in be-half
of Bethel, and offerings were
taken for the school.
"I have written my school song.
Have you?" is the slogan of the
school song contest promoted by the
student publicity committee. The
deadline for this all-school song con-test
is April 1, 1937. Bethel has
long been in need of a school song
and invites original contributions
from the entire denomination. The
song should contain at least three
verses. The prizes to be awarded
by the faculty include a first prize
of 10.00 and a second prize of $5.00.
The judges reserve the right of ac-cepting
or rejecting any or all of the
contributions, however,, every song
will receive recognition.
School Song
I Have Written Mine
HAVE YOU?
The school song project is in
charge of the publicity committee,
consisting of: Bruce Fleming, chair-man,
Gordon Anderson, Carl Lund-quist,
Carolyn Nelson, and Phyllis
Bohne. The contest has been stimu-lated
by posters, slogan cards for
those contributing, blackboard signs
in each room, daily chapel reitera-tions
of the slogan, and publicity in
denominational papers. In addition
to this, members of the English
classes have submitted entries in
connection with their class work.
The weekly paper, "The American
Jewish World" has been placed on
the magazine rack in the Junior
College Library. Elmer John is the
contributor.
NED HOLMGREN IS
CHOIR PRESIDENT
The newly organized a cap-pella
choir elected Ned Holm-gren
as its president at an elec-tion
Tuesday, March 9. Alice
Anderson will serve as vice-president;
Ethel Sjoberg, secre-tary;
and John Valine, li-brarian.
The choir, consisting of thir-ty-
two voices, has been re-hearsing
under the direction of
Prof. George Hultgren since
the beginning of the semester.
F. Melius Christianson's
"Praise the Lord", "Beautiful
Savior", and "The Music of
Life" will be sung at some
future musical.
Volunteers Conduct Service
On the afternoon of Sunday, Feb-ruary
28, a joint meeting of Bethel
and Macalester Student Volunteers
was held at the Macalester Presby-terian
Church. After a program
presented by Bethel's group, lunch
was served and a period of fellow-ship
followed.
The program of the afternoon con-sisted
of a missionary message by
Floyd Richert, musical numbers by
Samuel Schultz, and devotions led
by Florence Lindstrom. Leonard
Turnquist led the meeting.
NURSES ARE HOSTESSES
The girls of Bethel were the
guests Thursday afternoon, March
4, at the Mounds Park Nurses' home.
They were entertained in the earlier
part of the afternoon by a short,
beautifully rendered musical pro-gram,
after which they were served
refreshments. Later the girls were
divided into groups of six and seven,
and taken on an inspection tour of
the hospital.
Sophia Parfin's name was omitted
on the Junior College honor roll
printed in the last issue.
Male Chorus to Visit Churches
in Three State Tour
The annual spring tour of the
Bethel Male Chorus will begin Mon-day,
March 29. The director, Pro-fessor
George Hultgren, Clarence
Olson, accompanist, and the Chorus
will travel by chartered bus.
Churches in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Michigan will be visited.
The following tentative schedule
has been arranged:
Monday, March 29—Union concert
at Temple Baptist Church, Duluth,
Minnesota.
Tuesday, March 30—Superior, Wis-consin.
Wednesday, March 31 — Ashland,
Wisconsin.
Thursday, April 1—Ironwood, Mich-igan.
Friday, April 2—Iron River, Michi-gan.
Saturday, April 3—Iron Mountain,
Michigan.
Sunday, April 4—Morning-Union
Concert at Gladstone-Escanaba
churches.
Monday, April 5—Cadillac, Michi-gan.
Tuesday, April 6—Muskegon, Michi-gan.
Wednesday, April 7—Ludington,
Michigan.
Thursday, April 8—Chicago, Illi-nois.
Friday, April 9—Union concert of
Menominee-Marinette churches.
Saturday. April 10—Union Concert
of Prentice-Ogema churches.
COMING EVENTS
March 25.
Easter Vacation begins.
March 29.
Male Chorus Tour begins.
April '7.
College Club.
April 10.
Mid-semester reports due.
April 14.
Alexis.
NELSON AND LUNDQUIST
HAVE PERFECT SCORE
Edward Nelson and Carl Lund-quist,
Bethel debate team, won top
honors for Bethel March 13 in the
fourth annual debate tournament of
River Falls State Teachers' College,
River Falls, Wisconsin, by winning
all four debates in which they par-ticipated.
During the one-day event
Bethel debated Hamline, Macalester,
and two teams from Eau Claire State
Teachers' College, upholding the
affirmative twice and the negative
twice of the national question con-cerning
hours and wages in indus-try.
Out of the twenty teams from
the nine schools competing only
Bethel emerged with a perfect score
in all debates won. The president
of the local Pi Kappa Delta chapter
also stated that this was the first
time in the history of the tourna-ment
that any school had won its
entire four debates. Bethel and Con-cordia
were the only two junior
colleges entered in the event, the
rest being senior colleges of Minne-sota
and Wisconsin. Students who
participated in the recent North-west
Tournament at the College of
St. Thomas were excluded from
competition, thus limiting the event
to students who had not had much
tournament experience this season.
The results were announced at the
closing debate banquet in the college
dining hall Saturday evening. Lund-quist
represented the winning team
with a short after dinner speech dur-ing
the program.
Successful Season Concluded
This tournament victory conclud-ed
one of the most successful de-bate
seasons Bethel has had. The
same team won an upper rating for
Bethel in the February Red River
Valley Tournament at Moorehead,
Minn. They also defeated Concordia
and Waldorf in local conference de-bates,
although losing once to each
school on previous occasions. Aside
from these decision meets, Bethel
also competed against Hamline,
Macalester, and St. Thomas repre-sentatives.
During the year Nelson
and Lundquist won twelve debates.
and lost only three. Burnis Rogness,
Luther Seminary student, is the
coach of the squad.
Debaters Argue Question
Before College Club
Carl Lundquist and Edward Nel-son,
defending the negative side of
the national debate question, won a
victory at College Club Wednesday
evening, March 10, defeating Con-cordia
College of this city by the
decision of the single judge and
critic Mr. Osterhus, coach of debate
at Roosevelt High School, Minneap-olis.
Concordia, defending the affir-mative,
was represented by Messrs.
Brandt and Frey.
Have You Noticed Our New Dress?
This issue of The Clarion is print-ed
in the type face called "Excel-sior."
This is a new type just cre-ated
by the Mergenthaler Linotype
Company and has been judged by
eye specialists to be the easiest of
all type faces to read. The Minne-apolis
Journal has recently switch-ed
their newspaper to a similar type..
How do you like it?
Front row: Paul Racer, Everett Backlin, Aymond Anderson, Prof. Hultgren, director,
Clifford Dickau, Clarence Olson, accompanist, John Valine. Second row: Earl Sherman,
Carl Holmberg, Folke Ferre, Isaac Rahn, Warren Eklund, Francis Sorley, Rodger Goodman,
Third row: Maurice Lawson, Ned Holmgren, Raymond Olson, Samuel Schultz, Orville
Johnson, Donald Peterson, Raymond Martin. Back row: Henry Rahn, Donald Tanquist,
Robert Wingblade, Herbert Franck, Elmer John, Maxwell Franzen.
Page Two
March, 1937 THE BETHEL CLARION
THE BETHEL CLARION
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS ISSUE
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Everett Johnson
Hilding Lind
Florence Lindstrom
Maurice Wessman Samuel Schultz
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Have You Written Yours?
One of Bethel's needs is a school song. "Bethel,
Bethel, Alma Mater" no longer suffices. We desire
a song that is a true and meaningful expression of
the spirit of our school.
There has been a decided lack of interest in the
supplying of the need. Contributions have been few.
Many who have sentiments to express have not
formed them into poetry and submitted them.
Recent publicity has created enthusiasm. We hope
that a large number will be entered in the contest.
What constitutes a worthwhile school song? We
are not the judges but we believe that in the first
place it should reflect the whole school, from the
point of view of athletic, scholastic, religious, and so-cial
activity. It should have pep but not be a pep song;
it should be informal but not without dignity; it
should contain sentiment without being oversenti-mental.
To write a song that will ascribe to these con-ditions
will be difficult. However, the honor of hav-ing
one's poetry adopted as the official school song
is tempting. The same can be said of the prizes
offered by the administration.
Where Is Bethel's 'Stagline'?
Where is Bethel's Stag line? In previous years
tradition has decreed that the greater number of
the masculine members of the student body stand in
line, unmoved by the side glances of the fair sex
as they leave the building after College Club and
Alexis. Can such well grounded tradition be broken?
The observant have noticed that it is true.
It seems that either the young man slips away
hurriedly to his room to gaze at her picture in ec-stasy
or he puts on overcoat and offers his arm to
some fair coed.
It is a quite amazing yet welcome change in the
social life of Bethel.
Presenting a Need
A good course in journalism would be a very
worthwhile addition to Bethel's curriculum. In the
first :place such a course would result in a better
Clarion. Its news stories would be better written;
the entire make-up would be improved because the
staff would gain an enlarged vision of what consti-tutes
newspaper editing.
Secondly, we would learn to be more critical
readers of the daily newspapers. We would acquire
a criterion by which good journalism might be dis-tinguished
from bad. Then there are vocational val-ues.
Every College student ought to have a know-ledge
of the fundamentals of journalism. A know-ledge
of such is valuable in all fields of endeavor.
Every pastor needs journalism. It would aid him in
putting out a more attractive and accurate church
bulletin and other church literature; his reports in
the denominational papers would be more acceptable.
On the whole it would be a valuable asset to our
school program.
The Meaning of Easter
Apparently Calvary meant defeat. The Son of
God was taken by the hands of evil men and nailed
to a cross. A few weeping friends of the Master de-spaired,
and we can well imagine that the prince of
darkness rejoiced in his apparent victory.
But Calvary was followed by a glorious Easter
morning. And Easter means complete and eternal
victory for the good in the universe. The Son of
God stepped out of the grave triumphantly, a victor
over death and hades. "Behold the Lion that is of
the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath over-come,"
Rev. 5:5. All power was given to all them
that obey Him.
His discouraged disciples had left the cross with
no ray of hope in their heart. The Messiah in whom
they had hoped had died. But oh, how quickly the
scene changed when the good news flashed, "He is
not here; for He is risen, even as He said." They
could hardly believe their senses. Yet it was true.
Glorious fact of a risen Lord! This truth turned de-feat
into victory, and gloom and despair into the
joy and sunshine of heaven. After His ascension
they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And after
the fulfillment of the Father's promise they went out
to tell a sin-sick world the good news of a crucified
and risen Lord and Savior. Unto us, too, has his
grace been given, and that is the meaning of Easter
to us, to go and tell the story of redemption to lost
men and sing the song of joy and victory to lonely
and sad hearts. Therefore, we are always of a good
courage. For He shall present us before the presence
of His glory without blemish in exceeding joy.
Prof. Adolph Olson
Devotions
"With the cross of Jesus Going on Before"
"Then Jesus turned and saw them follow-ing,"
John 1:38a.
Over the door that leads from the dressing
room to the playing field of one of the country's
largest universities, a placard with the follow-ing
words is noticed—"Follow the Ball".
Winning football teams have been produced
of late at this university because these athletes
were taught a very simple rule.—"Follow the
Ball."
They have fumbled many times in champ-ionship
games. They followed the ball—they
won.
Their predecessors also fumbled as many
times. They did not realize the important mean-ing
of following the ball—they lost.
We are to be followers of the King.
"Andrew and John heard Him speak and they
followed Jesus"—it is the necessary rule for
abundant life—keep your eyes upon Jesus.
"Jesus found Philip and said—Follow me."
Where was Peter during the dark morning
hours when the Lamb of God was being led to
be tried in the palace of Caiaphas the high
priest? "Peter followed Him afar off."
Here are two fumblers in the game of life.
—Judas never did learn to keep his eyes fixed
upon Jesus. Peter later learned.
How natural it is to fumble. How victorious
it is to—Follow Christ!
Lead on, Oh King Eternal,
We follow not with fears;
The gladness breaks like morning
Where'er thy face appears;
Thy cross is lifted o'er us;
We journey in its light:
The crown awaits the conquest;
Lead on, 0 God of might.
John D. Lundberg
MARK TYME
"We are not in a Monastery"
I have been challenged by several
persons to explain what I meant by
saying that here we are not in a
monastery and that to us the World-
Spirit reaches.
In the Middle Ages a man could
escape the turbulence of war and
marriage by going to a monastery.
The real problems of getting along
with men, with daily life, with
women never reached him. He could
brood and escape real humanity. A
system of externally imposed disci-pline
would assure him of the right
kind of pious exercise to save his
own soul.
Women could escape to a nunnery.
Many of them did.
But are we in a monastery? We
say "No!"
Our young men do not deny
partisanship. They wish to see
Democracy saved from either Fas-cism
or Communism. As with the
men outside, there is complete di-vision
as to Roosevelt. Some are all
for and some are all against. This
bitter and extreme attitude is sim-ilar
to the bitter and extreme atti-tude
outside. Is that like a monas-tery?
We have a few apologists for the
so-called scientific attitude. We have
others who see faith as the best
basis for life. Others are indiffer-entists.
It is the same with the
world outside.
On some occasions race hatred
rears its ugly head. Does it outside?
I know there is race prejudice here
for I have heard it expressed.
Conversations and activity indi-cate
that even here young men and
young women have very human
hopes and plans.
We are not in a monastery! The
World-Spirit reaches us.
And we are going out into a world
that has a prevailing World-Spirit.
As we grapple with the problems
of the modern world and modern
life we are in peril of losing all bal-ance
and becoming violently "pro"
or "anti". Extremeness is in keeping
with present World-Spirit. Balance
is not a part of that Spirit. We easily
drift into an attitude of taking either
the New Masses or the Saturday
Evening Post as being the genuine
torch-bearers for the real truth.
Some of us can be just as opin-ionated
without reading anything.
We can be just as bitter.
We cannot afford to have a leader-ship
that is so lazy and careless.
This is a plea to grapple with the
problems of the modern world in an
intelligent manner. We cannot help
being biased but we can combat
bias with intelligence. We offer our-selves
for leadership, but if our
leadership is prejudice, untelligent,
unreasoning, unreasonable, bigoted,
unwilling-to-see-the-other-side pre-judice,
then we are real enemies of
the truth and when intelligent lead-ership
is required it is best to hold
our peace.
We are not in a monastery, we are
here preparing to go out into a real
world with real problems and as
individuals we have to face the
World-Spirit and we are not going
to overcome if we permit to be
overcome by all that the World-
Spirit means.
A. H. L.
A powerful Christian is a Bible-ful
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March, 1937 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
The Scout NEW CHURCH BUILT AT ISLE, MINNESOTA
Aron Andersson has stirred the
Christians of three continents . . .
In 1931 he went as Baptist mission-ary
from Sweden to Congo, Africa
. . . He will be in the Twin Cities
about the middle of April—First
Swedish Church, St. Paul; Elim,
Minneapolis . . . There is a picture
of him and of Mrs. Andersson in the
February 15 Evangel
We're having another disting-uished
visitor from Sweden in April
. . . Lewi Pethrus—leader of the
Pentecostal movement in that coun-try—
will come to Minneapolis about
April 8 . . . He is the pastor of the
Stockholm Church with 5,000 mem-bers.
—
National Preaching Mission
Time: April 18-21.
Place: Minneapolis and St. Paul
Auditoriums and Wesley M. E.
Church, Minneapolis.
Speakers: A team of twenty out-standing
religious leaders . . . men
and women.
Features: Two all-city mass meet-ings
. . . Y. P. mass meeting . . .
Minister's meetings in the morn-ing
. . . Seminars in the afternoons
. . . Women's meetings . . . Mrs.
E. Stanley Jones will be along .. .
(Mr. Jones returned to India the
middle of last month.)
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Dr. Riley's Church is having two
interesting guests . . . Dr. J. C.
Massee will be there the evenings
of the week of March 21 . . . (Pente-costal
Fire—in the Seminary library
—is a fine collection of some of his
evangelistic sermons.) . . . Joch
Troup, mission worker from Glas-gow,
Scotland, will be there for the
day services the same week . . .
He'll be at the Union Gospel Mis- -
sions in both cities for evening serv-ices
. . .
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Jose Iturbi has been very popular
as conductor of the Minneapolis
Symphony and will stay for the rest
of the season . . . there are two more
Sunday concerts . . . Dmitri Mitroup-olis
has been signed up as conductor
for next year.
Why not go a little early next
time you go to Northrop and visit
the art gallery on the top floor?
There's another interesting free
exhibit on the U. campus . . . The
zoology building is open from 2 to
5 Sunday afternoons . . . On the third
floor there are large displays of ani-mals
mounted in natural settings .. .
in the basement are more "stuffed"
animals, bird exhibits and an aquar-ium
. . . The Sunday hours last only
through March but the building is
open until about six o'clock six days
of every week. (Except holidays.)
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If you are in Minneapolis on Sun-day,
short of tokens and with noth-ing
to do until B. Y. time, take a
walk to the Art Institute . . . Ad-mission
is free on Sundays and it's
within walking distance of down-town
. . . if you like to walk . . .
There are statues, paintings, model
rooms, unique costumes, rare pieces
of "period" furniture, tapestries,
etchings, collections of jewelry and
china . . . their jade collection—
which you'll find just inside the main
entrance—is one of the best in the
world . . . There are free lectures
almost every Sunday afternoon.
The Historical Society's building
by the State Capitol is a good place
to spend an afternoon . . .
By the way—be sure you see the
Indian in the new St. Paul court-house.
CHAPEL NOTES
Bible School Students Here
Five students of the, St. Paul
Bible School under the direction of
Rev. George Strohm appeared in
chapel Friday, February 18. A wide
variety of musical numbers as well
as a personal testimony by one of
the group made up a very inter-esting
and inspiring program.
* * *
Alumnus Gives Chalk Drawing
"Christ was unique in the claims
he made" was the theme of a chapel
talk given by Rev. Kenneth R. Mead
of the Oakdale Chapel, Tuesday,
February 23. Rev. Mead also drew
a chalk landscape scene to the ac-companiment
of a vocal solo by John
Valine.
Mission Secretary Here
Rev. Ragnar A. Arlander, Mission
secretary of the Swedish Baptist
General Conference, was the chapel
speaker Wednesday, February 24.
"Let us not think that it is a weak
thing to be a Christian. It is possible
to be a Christian in any situation"
was among the statements made by
Rev. Arlander.
* * *
Blind Evangelist Tells Life Story
Dr. Walter D. Kallenbach of Phila-delphia,
blind evangelist and former-ly
famous athlete and trumpeter,
at a chapel service Friday, February
12, inspired his audience with his
account of how God called him into
His service. Dr. Kallenbach was
also the speaker in chapel Thurs-day,
February 25.
* * *
Rev. Norman B. Harrison Speaks
"God has a three-fold way of
imparting his will toward us: (1)
His Word, (2) Prayer, (3) The cir-cumstance
of our lives." Thus stated
Rev. Norman B. Harrison, of the
Oliver Presbyterian Church in Min-neapolis,
at the chapel service Tues-day,
March 2. "It is our business,"
he said "to find out what God had
in mind when he called us to be a
Christian."
* * *
Rev. Nelson Says We "Must Do"
Rev. Clarence Nelson, pastor of the
Salem Covenant Church in Minne-apolis
was the chapel speaker Thurs-day,
March 4. Centering his thoughts
around the "Imperative of Christ,"
Rev. Nelson said that our religion
is either a matter of obedience or
disobedience and that it is not a
"should do" but a "must do". "The
first recorded speech of Jesus cen-ters
about an imperative.
Have You Written Yours?
A new, modern church
biulding in Isle, Minnesota, is
nearing completion; the cor-nerstone
was laid February
14. The united support of the
local church and the fellow
Swedish Baptist churches
throughout Minnesota has been
"above expectations", accord-ing
to the pastor, Maurice Law-son.
Mr. Lawson of Meridan, Con-necticut
was asked to assume
pastoral responsibilities at Isle
in January, 1936, following an
evangelistic campaign that he
with his co-worker, Clifford
Dickau, conducted there dur-ing
the Thanksgiving vacation.
Having worked for the Gen-eral
Motors Corporation a number
of years, and having supplemented
his high school education with one
year's training at the Atlantic Un-ion
College at Lancaster, Massa-chusetts,
Mr. Lawson enrolled in
Bethel Junior College a year ago
last fall. He considers pastoral du-ties
as a "very valuable and blessed
experience" while attending school.
With an average attendance of
seventy-five or more the pressing
need for a new building culminated
in the formulation of definite plans
for the erection of a new struc-ture
on the adjoining lot last fall.
The construction of a new modern
church building, adapted for the
Sunday School, is nearing comple-tion
under the supervision of John
Lindgren of the Elim Baptist
Church of Minneapolis. The esti-mated
cost is fifty two hundred
dollars. Since February 14 the
services have been held in the new
building; Rev. Axel Anderson,
state missionary, conducted an
evangelistic campaign the week
following. Plans are being made
for the dedication of the new
church in June.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION March, 1937
ALUMNI NEWS BY STAN
Bill Adams '32 captained the Mac-alester
basketball team to their first
Minnesota College Conference bas-ketball
championship in recent his-tory.
He was one of the players in
the Bethel Alumni game March 8.
Karl Koch '34 was also a member
of the champion "Mac." squad.
Gordon Danielson '34 is working
for the Northern Ski Company.
Victor E. Sherling '34 has been
called to and has taken up the work
of the First Baptist Church of
Jamestown, North Dakota as interim
pastor.
Nathan Esseistrom '34 has taken
up the work as pastor in Soudan,
Minnesota.
Rev. W. G. Holmberg '19 had the
privilege of baptizing four young
people and welcoming them into the
fellowship of the Bethel church,
Minneapolis, recently. He is the
acting Business Secretary of the
school at the present time.
Exactly 1,089 African natives
crowded the tiny chapel of the Bluk-wa
Mission station in inland Africa
for the Christmas festival, and with
their presence helped Mildred Olson
celebrate her first Christmas in
Congoland. Although her home is
made of sun-dried bricks and is plas-tered
with mud and water and has
a roof of woven reeds, she writes,
"This year has been a happy one,
and I do praise the Lord." Her work
with over a hundred girls, ages from
21 to 30, is very interesting. She
graduated in '31 and sailed about a
year ago.
Arabic, was the language used by
Olga Weiss '31 for the Christmas and
New Year messages in the North
African state, Morocco. Very differ-ent
from ours was their Yule season
in the land of warmth where ancient
Roman ruin is scenery. Yet they
enjoyed it for souls were drawn
closer to the Savior. Thanks, Rev.
Weiss for saying you enjoyed the
Clarions, especially the Alumni
News.
Mrs. Harold Lidblom '24 was a
February visitor on the Bethel cam-pus.
She recently moved to Des
Moines, Iowa, where her husband
has the Gamble Store agency.
Emily Satterberg '21 and Esther
Bodien '22 have had pictures from
their fields posted on the College
bulletin board; this courtesy was
much appreciated by the students.
Hollis Johnson '28, band director
at Macalester College, was on hand
for the first Alumni-varsity basket-ball
game.
Juan Orendain '18, a native Filip-ino,
is a member of the editorial
staff of the Manila Bulletin, copies of
which are in the college library.
Ruth Adele Johnson '25 is a school
nurse in Omaha, Nebraska. She also
has a Sunday School class of girls
in their late teens and early twen-ties.
Leonard Larson '33 is teaching
Industrial Arts and Physical Educa-tion
in the high school in Watertown,
South Dakota.
Bengt Anderson '21 has just re-ceived
from the press the first trans-lation
of the book of Acts into the
Sema Naga Language; he did the
translating himself. J. E. Tanquist
'09 has sent his translation of Acts
in the Zotha Naga language to the
press.
Eric Frykenburg '29 sailed for his
field in South India March 13.
Ivan Erickson after leaving Phil-adelphia
took up the pastorate in
Arlington, New Jersey.
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Her roommate: No, I didn't, but
that is certainly thoughtful of you.
Patron: Look here! I ordered
chicken salad and there isn't a piece
of chicken in it.
Applequist: That's being consist-ent,
sir; we have cottage cheese but
as far as I know there isn't a cottage
in it.
Prof. Wingblade was assigning
topics for extemporaneous talks:—
and will you please take "Poison",
Miss McMillan?
Little girl: Mother, when I grow
up will I have a husband like
Daddy?
I don't know, dear; very probably.
And if I don't get married will I
be an old maid like Aunt Mary?
Perhaps.
Mother, it's a pretty tough world
for us women, isn't it?
Which reminds me—Elsie J. says:
"No, I'm not an old maid, just an
unclaimed blessing."
A young couple was talking things
over a short time before the wed-ding:
"There's one thing I've never told
you" said the young lady, "and that
is that I'm a somnambulist".
"Oh, that's all right," he said,
"after we're married you can go to
your church and I'll go to mine."
Seen on the wall of the boys'
"wreck-roation" room:
Carl L.—our Bohne vice president
—all the Phyllis like him.
In Greek class Mr. Wingblade and
Sam S. were discussing .. .
Mr. W.: We had a good service
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Varsity Wins One and
Loses One on Road Trip
New Ulm Defeats Bethel
On a recent road trip, the Bethel
cagers played the Bethany and New
Ulm teams. Both of these were con-ference
tilts.
The New Ulm squad defeated the
St. Paul boys by the slim margin
of two points; the final score being
29-27.
* * *
Scores Second Victory over Bethany
A second victory over the Bethany
team of Mankato was scored by the
Bethel team on the Mankato floor.
This was the second time this sea-son
that Bethel won from Bethany.
The score at the sound of the final
gun stood at 20-12 in favor of our
side.
* * *
U. Farm School Defeats Bethel
Another loss was sustained by
Bethel at the hands of the U. Farm
School team Wednesday, March 8.
The team defeated our team by the
score of 50-32. They scored the
highest number of points that has
been scored against Bethel this sea-son.
* * *
Bethel Victor Over Grantsburg Team
On an invitation to play the
Grantsburg, Wisconsin town team,
the Bethel five went up there on
Friday, March 5, and returned home
with a victory to their credit, de-feating
the town team by a score
of 28-21. Anderson, Sorley, Richert,
Applequist, and Backlin made the
trip.
• *
Bethel Defeats Alumni
One of the feature games of the
season was the game played between
the Bethel team and the Alumni.
This game was played Monday night,
March 8.
The Alumni who played in the
game were: Bill Adams, V. Olson,
Lindquist, Magnuson, Lundholm
Dickau, D. Peterson, and C. Dahlin.
Efficient ball handling on the part
of the undergraduates caused the
Alumni to suffer defeat to the tune
of 40-28.
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MALE CHORUS TO MAKE A TOUR
THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XVI, No. 9 BETHEL INSTITUTE ST. PAUL, MINN. March, 1937
Debaters Take River Falls Tournament
DR. HAGSTROM ATTENDS
MISSION BOARD MEETINGS
Dr. Hagstrom left Thursday,
March 11, for New York, to attend
meetings of the Board of Managers
of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, March 15, 16, and
17.
Enroute to New York, Dr. Hag-strom
stopped at the International
Baptist Seminary in East Orange,
New Jersey, to be present Friday,
March 12, as a representative of the
Swedish Baptists at a meeting of
the Commission of Baptist Bodies
using Foreign languages.
Sunday, March 14th, was Bethel
Day at the Swedish Baptist Church
of Montclair, New Jersey. Dr. Hag-strom
spoke at the services in be-half
of Bethel, and offerings were
taken for the school.
"I have written my school song.
Have you?" is the slogan of the
school song contest promoted by the
student publicity committee. The
deadline for this all-school song con-test
is April 1, 1937. Bethel has
long been in need of a school song
and invites original contributions
from the entire denomination. The
song should contain at least three
verses. The prizes to be awarded
by the faculty include a first prize
of 10.00 and a second prize of $5.00.
The judges reserve the right of ac-cepting
or rejecting any or all of the
contributions, however,, every song
will receive recognition.
School Song
I Have Written Mine
HAVE YOU?
The school song project is in
charge of the publicity committee,
consisting of: Bruce Fleming, chair-man,
Gordon Anderson, Carl Lund-quist,
Carolyn Nelson, and Phyllis
Bohne. The contest has been stimu-lated
by posters, slogan cards for
those contributing, blackboard signs
in each room, daily chapel reitera-tions
of the slogan, and publicity in
denominational papers. In addition
to this, members of the English
classes have submitted entries in
connection with their class work.
The weekly paper, "The American
Jewish World" has been placed on
the magazine rack in the Junior
College Library. Elmer John is the
contributor.
NED HOLMGREN IS
CHOIR PRESIDENT
The newly organized a cap-pella
choir elected Ned Holm-gren
as its president at an elec-tion
Tuesday, March 9. Alice
Anderson will serve as vice-president;
Ethel Sjoberg, secre-tary;
and John Valine, li-brarian.
The choir, consisting of thir-ty-
two voices, has been re-hearsing
under the direction of
Prof. George Hultgren since
the beginning of the semester.
F. Melius Christianson's
"Praise the Lord", "Beautiful
Savior", and "The Music of
Life" will be sung at some
future musical.
Volunteers Conduct Service
On the afternoon of Sunday, Feb-ruary
28, a joint meeting of Bethel
and Macalester Student Volunteers
was held at the Macalester Presby-terian
Church. After a program
presented by Bethel's group, lunch
was served and a period of fellow-ship
followed.
The program of the afternoon con-sisted
of a missionary message by
Floyd Richert, musical numbers by
Samuel Schultz, and devotions led
by Florence Lindstrom. Leonard
Turnquist led the meeting.
NURSES ARE HOSTESSES
The girls of Bethel were the
guests Thursday afternoon, March
4, at the Mounds Park Nurses' home.
They were entertained in the earlier
part of the afternoon by a short,
beautifully rendered musical pro-gram,
after which they were served
refreshments. Later the girls were
divided into groups of six and seven,
and taken on an inspection tour of
the hospital.
Sophia Parfin's name was omitted
on the Junior College honor roll
printed in the last issue.
Male Chorus to Visit Churches
in Three State Tour
The annual spring tour of the
Bethel Male Chorus will begin Mon-day,
March 29. The director, Pro-fessor
George Hultgren, Clarence
Olson, accompanist, and the Chorus
will travel by chartered bus.
Churches in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Michigan will be visited.
The following tentative schedule
has been arranged:
Monday, March 29—Union concert
at Temple Baptist Church, Duluth,
Minnesota.
Tuesday, March 30—Superior, Wis-consin.
Wednesday, March 31 — Ashland,
Wisconsin.
Thursday, April 1—Ironwood, Mich-igan.
Friday, April 2—Iron River, Michi-gan.
Saturday, April 3—Iron Mountain,
Michigan.
Sunday, April 4—Morning-Union
Concert at Gladstone-Escanaba
churches.
Monday, April 5—Cadillac, Michi-gan.
Tuesday, April 6—Muskegon, Michi-gan.
Wednesday, April 7—Ludington,
Michigan.
Thursday, April 8—Chicago, Illi-nois.
Friday, April 9—Union concert of
Menominee-Marinette churches.
Saturday. April 10—Union Concert
of Prentice-Ogema churches.
COMING EVENTS
March 25.
Easter Vacation begins.
March 29.
Male Chorus Tour begins.
April '7.
College Club.
April 10.
Mid-semester reports due.
April 14.
Alexis.
NELSON AND LUNDQUIST
HAVE PERFECT SCORE
Edward Nelson and Carl Lund-quist,
Bethel debate team, won top
honors for Bethel March 13 in the
fourth annual debate tournament of
River Falls State Teachers' College,
River Falls, Wisconsin, by winning
all four debates in which they par-ticipated.
During the one-day event
Bethel debated Hamline, Macalester,
and two teams from Eau Claire State
Teachers' College, upholding the
affirmative twice and the negative
twice of the national question con-cerning
hours and wages in indus-try.
Out of the twenty teams from
the nine schools competing only
Bethel emerged with a perfect score
in all debates won. The president
of the local Pi Kappa Delta chapter
also stated that this was the first
time in the history of the tourna-ment
that any school had won its
entire four debates. Bethel and Con-cordia
were the only two junior
colleges entered in the event, the
rest being senior colleges of Minne-sota
and Wisconsin. Students who
participated in the recent North-west
Tournament at the College of
St. Thomas were excluded from
competition, thus limiting the event
to students who had not had much
tournament experience this season.
The results were announced at the
closing debate banquet in the college
dining hall Saturday evening. Lund-quist
represented the winning team
with a short after dinner speech dur-ing
the program.
Successful Season Concluded
This tournament victory conclud-ed
one of the most successful de-bate
seasons Bethel has had. The
same team won an upper rating for
Bethel in the February Red River
Valley Tournament at Moorehead,
Minn. They also defeated Concordia
and Waldorf in local conference de-bates,
although losing once to each
school on previous occasions. Aside
from these decision meets, Bethel
also competed against Hamline,
Macalester, and St. Thomas repre-sentatives.
During the year Nelson
and Lundquist won twelve debates.
and lost only three. Burnis Rogness,
Luther Seminary student, is the
coach of the squad.
Debaters Argue Question
Before College Club
Carl Lundquist and Edward Nel-son,
defending the negative side of
the national debate question, won a
victory at College Club Wednesday
evening, March 10, defeating Con-cordia
College of this city by the
decision of the single judge and
critic Mr. Osterhus, coach of debate
at Roosevelt High School, Minneap-olis.
Concordia, defending the affir-mative,
was represented by Messrs.
Brandt and Frey.
Have You Noticed Our New Dress?
This issue of The Clarion is print-ed
in the type face called "Excel-sior."
This is a new type just cre-ated
by the Mergenthaler Linotype
Company and has been judged by
eye specialists to be the easiest of
all type faces to read. The Minne-apolis
Journal has recently switch-ed
their newspaper to a similar type..
How do you like it?
Front row: Paul Racer, Everett Backlin, Aymond Anderson, Prof. Hultgren, director,
Clifford Dickau, Clarence Olson, accompanist, John Valine. Second row: Earl Sherman,
Carl Holmberg, Folke Ferre, Isaac Rahn, Warren Eklund, Francis Sorley, Rodger Goodman,
Third row: Maurice Lawson, Ned Holmgren, Raymond Olson, Samuel Schultz, Orville
Johnson, Donald Peterson, Raymond Martin. Back row: Henry Rahn, Donald Tanquist,
Robert Wingblade, Herbert Franck, Elmer John, Maxwell Franzen.
Page Two
March, 1937 THE BETHEL CLARION
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS ISSUE
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Have You Written Yours?
One of Bethel's needs is a school song. "Bethel,
Bethel, Alma Mater" no longer suffices. We desire
a song that is a true and meaningful expression of
the spirit of our school.
There has been a decided lack of interest in the
supplying of the need. Contributions have been few.
Many who have sentiments to express have not
formed them into poetry and submitted them.
Recent publicity has created enthusiasm. We hope
that a large number will be entered in the contest.
What constitutes a worthwhile school song? We
are not the judges but we believe that in the first
place it should reflect the whole school, from the
point of view of athletic, scholastic, religious, and so-cial
activity. It should have pep but not be a pep song;
it should be informal but not without dignity; it
should contain sentiment without being oversenti-mental.
To write a song that will ascribe to these con-ditions
will be difficult. However, the honor of hav-ing
one's poetry adopted as the official school song
is tempting. The same can be said of the prizes
offered by the administration.
Where Is Bethel's 'Stagline'?
Where is Bethel's Stag line? In previous years
tradition has decreed that the greater number of
the masculine members of the student body stand in
line, unmoved by the side glances of the fair sex
as they leave the building after College Club and
Alexis. Can such well grounded tradition be broken?
The observant have noticed that it is true.
It seems that either the young man slips away
hurriedly to his room to gaze at her picture in ec-stasy
or he puts on overcoat and offers his arm to
some fair coed.
It is a quite amazing yet welcome change in the
social life of Bethel.
Presenting a Need
A good course in journalism would be a very
worthwhile addition to Bethel's curriculum. In the
first :place such a course would result in a better
Clarion. Its news stories would be better written;
the entire make-up would be improved because the
staff would gain an enlarged vision of what consti-tutes
newspaper editing.
Secondly, we would learn to be more critical
readers of the daily newspapers. We would acquire
a criterion by which good journalism might be dis-tinguished
from bad. Then there are vocational val-ues.
Every College student ought to have a know-ledge
of the fundamentals of journalism. A know-ledge
of such is valuable in all fields of endeavor.
Every pastor needs journalism. It would aid him in
putting out a more attractive and accurate church
bulletin and other church literature; his reports in
the denominational papers would be more acceptable.
On the whole it would be a valuable asset to our
school program.
The Meaning of Easter
Apparently Calvary meant defeat. The Son of
God was taken by the hands of evil men and nailed
to a cross. A few weeping friends of the Master de-spaired,
and we can well imagine that the prince of
darkness rejoiced in his apparent victory.
But Calvary was followed by a glorious Easter
morning. And Easter means complete and eternal
victory for the good in the universe. The Son of
God stepped out of the grave triumphantly, a victor
over death and hades. "Behold the Lion that is of
the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath over-come,"
Rev. 5:5. All power was given to all them
that obey Him.
His discouraged disciples had left the cross with
no ray of hope in their heart. The Messiah in whom
they had hoped had died. But oh, how quickly the
scene changed when the good news flashed, "He is
not here; for He is risen, even as He said." They
could hardly believe their senses. Yet it was true.
Glorious fact of a risen Lord! This truth turned de-feat
into victory, and gloom and despair into the
joy and sunshine of heaven. After His ascension
they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And after
the fulfillment of the Father's promise they went out
to tell a sin-sick world the good news of a crucified
and risen Lord and Savior. Unto us, too, has his
grace been given, and that is the meaning of Easter
to us, to go and tell the story of redemption to lost
men and sing the song of joy and victory to lonely
and sad hearts. Therefore, we are always of a good
courage. For He shall present us before the presence
of His glory without blemish in exceeding joy.
Prof. Adolph Olson
Devotions
"With the cross of Jesus Going on Before"
"Then Jesus turned and saw them follow-ing,"
John 1:38a.
Over the door that leads from the dressing
room to the playing field of one of the country's
largest universities, a placard with the follow-ing
words is noticed—"Follow the Ball".
Winning football teams have been produced
of late at this university because these athletes
were taught a very simple rule.—"Follow the
Ball."
They have fumbled many times in champ-ionship
games. They followed the ball—they
won.
Their predecessors also fumbled as many
times. They did not realize the important mean-ing
of following the ball—they lost.
We are to be followers of the King.
"Andrew and John heard Him speak and they
followed Jesus"—it is the necessary rule for
abundant life—keep your eyes upon Jesus.
"Jesus found Philip and said—Follow me."
Where was Peter during the dark morning
hours when the Lamb of God was being led to
be tried in the palace of Caiaphas the high
priest? "Peter followed Him afar off."
Here are two fumblers in the game of life.
—Judas never did learn to keep his eyes fixed
upon Jesus. Peter later learned.
How natural it is to fumble. How victorious
it is to—Follow Christ!
Lead on, Oh King Eternal,
We follow not with fears;
The gladness breaks like morning
Where'er thy face appears;
Thy cross is lifted o'er us;
We journey in its light:
The crown awaits the conquest;
Lead on, 0 God of might.
John D. Lundberg
MARK TYME
"We are not in a Monastery"
I have been challenged by several
persons to explain what I meant by
saying that here we are not in a
monastery and that to us the World-
Spirit reaches.
In the Middle Ages a man could
escape the turbulence of war and
marriage by going to a monastery.
The real problems of getting along
with men, with daily life, with
women never reached him. He could
brood and escape real humanity. A
system of externally imposed disci-pline
would assure him of the right
kind of pious exercise to save his
own soul.
Women could escape to a nunnery.
Many of them did.
But are we in a monastery? We
say "No!"
Our young men do not deny
partisanship. They wish to see
Democracy saved from either Fas-cism
or Communism. As with the
men outside, there is complete di-vision
as to Roosevelt. Some are all
for and some are all against. This
bitter and extreme attitude is sim-ilar
to the bitter and extreme atti-tude
outside. Is that like a monas-tery?
We have a few apologists for the
so-called scientific attitude. We have
others who see faith as the best
basis for life. Others are indiffer-entists.
It is the same with the
world outside.
On some occasions race hatred
rears its ugly head. Does it outside?
I know there is race prejudice here
for I have heard it expressed.
Conversations and activity indi-cate
that even here young men and
young women have very human
hopes and plans.
We are not in a monastery! The
World-Spirit reaches us.
And we are going out into a world
that has a prevailing World-Spirit.
As we grapple with the problems
of the modern world and modern
life we are in peril of losing all bal-ance
and becoming violently "pro"
or "anti". Extremeness is in keeping
with present World-Spirit. Balance
is not a part of that Spirit. We easily
drift into an attitude of taking either
the New Masses or the Saturday
Evening Post as being the genuine
torch-bearers for the real truth.
Some of us can be just as opin-ionated
without reading anything.
We can be just as bitter.
We cannot afford to have a leader-ship
that is so lazy and careless.
This is a plea to grapple with the
problems of the modern world in an
intelligent manner. We cannot help
being biased but we can combat
bias with intelligence. We offer our-selves
for leadership, but if our
leadership is prejudice, untelligent,
unreasoning, unreasonable, bigoted,
unwilling-to-see-the-other-side pre-judice,
then we are real enemies of
the truth and when intelligent lead-ership
is required it is best to hold
our peace.
We are not in a monastery, we are
here preparing to go out into a real
world with real problems and as
individuals we have to face the
World-Spirit and we are not going
to overcome if we permit to be
overcome by all that the World-
Spirit means.
A. H. L.
A powerful Christian is a Bible-ful
Christian, a Powerful preacher
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March, 1937 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
The Scout NEW CHURCH BUILT AT ISLE, MINNESOTA
Aron Andersson has stirred the
Christians of three continents . . .
In 1931 he went as Baptist mission-ary
from Sweden to Congo, Africa
. . . He will be in the Twin Cities
about the middle of April—First
Swedish Church, St. Paul; Elim,
Minneapolis . . . There is a picture
of him and of Mrs. Andersson in the
February 15 Evangel
We're having another disting-uished
visitor from Sweden in April
. . . Lewi Pethrus—leader of the
Pentecostal movement in that coun-try—
will come to Minneapolis about
April 8 . . . He is the pastor of the
Stockholm Church with 5,000 mem-bers.
—
National Preaching Mission
Time: April 18-21.
Place: Minneapolis and St. Paul
Auditoriums and Wesley M. E.
Church, Minneapolis.
Speakers: A team of twenty out-standing
religious leaders . . . men
and women.
Features: Two all-city mass meet-ings
. . . Y. P. mass meeting . . .
Minister's meetings in the morn-ing
. . . Seminars in the afternoons
. . . Women's meetings . . . Mrs.
E. Stanley Jones will be along .. .
(Mr. Jones returned to India the
middle of last month.)
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Dr. Riley's Church is having two
interesting guests . . . Dr. J. C.
Massee will be there the evenings
of the week of March 21 . . . (Pente-costal
Fire—in the Seminary library
—is a fine collection of some of his
evangelistic sermons.) . . . Joch
Troup, mission worker from Glas-gow,
Scotland, will be there for the
day services the same week . . .
He'll be at the Union Gospel Mis- -
sions in both cities for evening serv-ices
. . .
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Jose Iturbi has been very popular
as conductor of the Minneapolis
Symphony and will stay for the rest
of the season . . . there are two more
Sunday concerts . . . Dmitri Mitroup-olis
has been signed up as conductor
for next year.
Why not go a little early next
time you go to Northrop and visit
the art gallery on the top floor?
There's another interesting free
exhibit on the U. campus . . . The
zoology building is open from 2 to
5 Sunday afternoons . . . On the third
floor there are large displays of ani-mals
mounted in natural settings .. .
in the basement are more "stuffed"
animals, bird exhibits and an aquar-ium
. . . The Sunday hours last only
through March but the building is
open until about six o'clock six days
of every week. (Except holidays.)
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If you are in Minneapolis on Sun-day,
short of tokens and with noth-ing
to do until B. Y. time, take a
walk to the Art Institute . . . Ad-mission
is free on Sundays and it's
within walking distance of down-town
. . . if you like to walk . . .
There are statues, paintings, model
rooms, unique costumes, rare pieces
of "period" furniture, tapestries,
etchings, collections of jewelry and
china . . . their jade collection—
which you'll find just inside the main
entrance—is one of the best in the
world . . . There are free lectures
almost every Sunday afternoon.
The Historical Society's building
by the State Capitol is a good place
to spend an afternoon . . .
By the way—be sure you see the
Indian in the new St. Paul court-house.
CHAPEL NOTES
Bible School Students Here
Five students of the, St. Paul
Bible School under the direction of
Rev. George Strohm appeared in
chapel Friday, February 18. A wide
variety of musical numbers as well
as a personal testimony by one of
the group made up a very inter-esting
and inspiring program.
* * *
Alumnus Gives Chalk Drawing
"Christ was unique in the claims
he made" was the theme of a chapel
talk given by Rev. Kenneth R. Mead
of the Oakdale Chapel, Tuesday,
February 23. Rev. Mead also drew
a chalk landscape scene to the ac-companiment
of a vocal solo by John
Valine.
Mission Secretary Here
Rev. Ragnar A. Arlander, Mission
secretary of the Swedish Baptist
General Conference, was the chapel
speaker Wednesday, February 24.
"Let us not think that it is a weak
thing to be a Christian. It is possible
to be a Christian in any situation"
was among the statements made by
Rev. Arlander.
* * *
Blind Evangelist Tells Life Story
Dr. Walter D. Kallenbach of Phila-delphia,
blind evangelist and former-ly
famous athlete and trumpeter,
at a chapel service Friday, February
12, inspired his audience with his
account of how God called him into
His service. Dr. Kallenbach was
also the speaker in chapel Thurs-day,
February 25.
* * *
Rev. Norman B. Harrison Speaks
"God has a three-fold way of
imparting his will toward us: (1)
His Word, (2) Prayer, (3) The cir-cumstance
of our lives." Thus stated
Rev. Norman B. Harrison, of the
Oliver Presbyterian Church in Min-neapolis,
at the chapel service Tues-day,
March 2. "It is our business,"
he said "to find out what God had
in mind when he called us to be a
Christian."
* * *
Rev. Nelson Says We "Must Do"
Rev. Clarence Nelson, pastor of the
Salem Covenant Church in Minne-apolis
was the chapel speaker Thurs-day,
March 4. Centering his thoughts
around the "Imperative of Christ,"
Rev. Nelson said that our religion
is either a matter of obedience or
disobedience and that it is not a
"should do" but a "must do". "The
first recorded speech of Jesus cen-ters
about an imperative.
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A new, modern church
biulding in Isle, Minnesota, is
nearing completion; the cor-nerstone
was laid February
14. The united support of the
local church and the fellow
Swedish Baptist churches
throughout Minnesota has been
"above expectations", accord-ing
to the pastor, Maurice Law-son.
Mr. Lawson of Meridan, Con-necticut
was asked to assume
pastoral responsibilities at Isle
in January, 1936, following an
evangelistic campaign that he
with his co-worker, Clifford
Dickau, conducted there dur-ing
the Thanksgiving vacation.
Having worked for the Gen-eral
Motors Corporation a number
of years, and having supplemented
his high school education with one
year's training at the Atlantic Un-ion
College at Lancaster, Massa-chusetts,
Mr. Lawson enrolled in
Bethel Junior College a year ago
last fall. He considers pastoral du-ties
as a "very valuable and blessed
experience" while attending school.
With an average attendance of
seventy-five or more the pressing
need for a new building culminated
in the formulation of definite plans
for the erection of a new struc-ture
on the adjoining lot last fall.
The construction of a new modern
church building, adapted for the
Sunday School, is nearing comple-tion
under the supervision of John
Lindgren of the Elim Baptist
Church of Minneapolis. The esti-mated
cost is fifty two hundred
dollars. Since February 14 the
services have been held in the new
building; Rev. Axel Anderson,
state missionary, conducted an
evangelistic campaign the week
following. Plans are being made
for the dedication of the new
church in June.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION March, 1937
ALUMNI NEWS BY STAN
Bill Adams '32 captained the Mac-alester
basketball team to their first
Minnesota College Conference bas-ketball
championship in recent his-tory.
He was one of the players in
the Bethel Alumni game March 8.
Karl Koch '34 was also a member
of the champion "Mac." squad.
Gordon Danielson '34 is working
for the Northern Ski Company.
Victor E. Sherling '34 has been
called to and has taken up the work
of the First Baptist Church of
Jamestown, North Dakota as interim
pastor.
Nathan Esseistrom '34 has taken
up the work as pastor in Soudan,
Minnesota.
Rev. W. G. Holmberg '19 had the
privilege of baptizing four young
people and welcoming them into the
fellowship of the Bethel church,
Minneapolis, recently. He is the
acting Business Secretary of the
school at the present time.
Exactly 1,089 African natives
crowded the tiny chapel of the Bluk-wa
Mission station in inland Africa
for the Christmas festival, and with
their presence helped Mildred Olson
celebrate her first Christmas in
Congoland. Although her home is
made of sun-dried bricks and is plas-tered
with mud and water and has
a roof of woven reeds, she writes,
"This year has been a happy one,
and I do praise the Lord." Her work
with over a hundred girls, ages from
21 to 30, is very interesting. She
graduated in '31 and sailed about a
year ago.
Arabic, was the language used by
Olga Weiss '31 for the Christmas and
New Year messages in the North
African state, Morocco. Very differ-ent
from ours was their Yule season
in the land of warmth where ancient
Roman ruin is scenery. Yet they
enjoyed it for souls were drawn
closer to the Savior. Thanks, Rev.
Weiss for saying you enjoyed the
Clarions, especially the Alumni
News.
Mrs. Harold Lidblom '24 was a
February visitor on the Bethel cam-pus.
She recently moved to Des
Moines, Iowa, where her husband
has the Gamble Store agency.
Emily Satterberg '21 and Esther
Bodien '22 have had pictures from
their fields posted on the College
bulletin board; this courtesy was
much appreciated by the students.
Hollis Johnson '28, band director
at Macalester College, was on hand
for the first Alumni-varsity basket-ball
game.
Juan Orendain '18, a native Filip-ino,
is a member of the editorial
staff of the Manila Bulletin, copies of
which are in the college library.
Ruth Adele Johnson '25 is a school
nurse in Omaha, Nebraska. She also
has a Sunday School class of girls
in their late teens and early twen-ties.
Leonard Larson '33 is teaching
Industrial Arts and Physical Educa-tion
in the high school in Watertown,
South Dakota.
Bengt Anderson '21 has just re-ceived
from the press the first trans-lation
of the book of Acts into the
Sema Naga Language; he did the
translating himself. J. E. Tanquist
'09 has sent his translation of Acts
in the Zotha Naga language to the
press.
Eric Frykenburg '29 sailed for his
field in South India March 13.
Ivan Erickson after leaving Phil-adelphia
took up the pastorate in
Arlington, New Jersey.
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Daddy Larson: Did you know that
I'm sending Peggy abroad to study
singing?
Her roommate: No, I didn't, but
that is certainly thoughtful of you.
Patron: Look here! I ordered
chicken salad and there isn't a piece
of chicken in it.
Applequist: That's being consist-ent,
sir; we have cottage cheese but
as far as I know there isn't a cottage
in it.
Prof. Wingblade was assigning
topics for extemporaneous talks:—
and will you please take "Poison",
Miss McMillan?
Little girl: Mother, when I grow
up will I have a husband like
Daddy?
I don't know, dear; very probably.
And if I don't get married will I
be an old maid like Aunt Mary?
Perhaps.
Mother, it's a pretty tough world
for us women, isn't it?
Which reminds me—Elsie J. says:
"No, I'm not an old maid, just an
unclaimed blessing."
A young couple was talking things
over a short time before the wed-ding:
"There's one thing I've never told
you" said the young lady, "and that
is that I'm a somnambulist".
"Oh, that's all right," he said,
"after we're married you can go to
your church and I'll go to mine."
Seen on the wall of the boys'
"wreck-roation" room:
Carl L.—our Bohne vice president
—all the Phyllis like him.
In Greek class Mr. Wingblade and
Sam S. were discussing .. .
Mr. W.: We had a good service
last night. Rev. J. spoke on Suicide.
S. S.: Any results?
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Varsity Wins One and
Loses One on Road Trip
New Ulm Defeats Bethel
On a recent road trip, the Bethel
cagers played the Bethany and New
Ulm teams. Both of these were con-ference
tilts.
The New Ulm squad defeated the
St. Paul boys by the slim margin
of two points; the final score being
29-27.
* * *
Scores Second Victory over Bethany
A second victory over the Bethany
team of Mankato was scored by the
Bethel team on the Mankato floor.
This was the second time this sea-son
that Bethel won from Bethany.
The score at the sound of the final
gun stood at 20-12 in favor of our
side.
* * *
U. Farm School Defeats Bethel
Another loss was sustained by
Bethel at the hands of the U. Farm
School team Wednesday, March 8.
The team defeated our team by the
score of 50-32. They scored the
highest number of points that has
been scored against Bethel this sea-son.
* * *
Bethel Victor Over Grantsburg Team
On an invitation to play the
Grantsburg, Wisconsin town team,
the Bethel five went up there on
Friday, March 5, and returned home
with a victory to their credit, de-feating
the town team by a score
of 28-21. Anderson, Sorley, Richert,
Applequist, and Backlin made the
trip.
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Bethel Defeats Alumni
One of the feature games of the
season was the game played between
the Bethel team and the Alumni.
This game was played Monday night,
March 8.
The Alumni who played in the
game were: Bill Adams, V. Olson,
Lindquist, Magnuson, Lundholm
Dickau, D. Peterson, and C. Dahlin.
Efficient ball handling on the part
of the undergraduates caused the
Alumni to suffer defeat to the tune
of 40-28.
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